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NewsTrust - Most Recent Stories Copyright (c) 2008 NewsTrust en-us Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:16:03 -0800 http://newstrust.net/images/logos/newstrust-logo_20px.gif NewsTrust NewsTrust helps people find good journalism online. We rate the news based on quality, not just popularity. Our social news network features top-rated stories from hundreds of mainstream and independent sources. Find out more at http://newstrust.net/ Philippines Declares Emergency After Violence Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/449935 http://newstrust.net/stories/449935 <span><a href="/sources/new_york_times">New York Times</a> - By Carlos H. Conde - Nov. 25 (News Report) - Two provinces in the troubled south of the Philippines were placed under emergency rule on Tuesday as authorities discovered more bodies of people who were abducted and slaughtered in violence tied to the country’s perennially violent election season.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/449935">3.1 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/449935">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/449935">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Human Rights Study Suggest Black Women's Relative Invisibility in Society Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450725 http://newstrust.net/stories/450725 <span><a href="/sources/miller_mccune">Miller-McCune</a> - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 24 (News Report) - New research finds black women are more likely to go unnoticed and unappreciated than black men or whites of either gender.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450725">3.1 average</a> - <a href="/stories/450725">3 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450725">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Racism Psychology The Black Experience Pesticides that kill rodents also poison owls. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450400 http://newstrust.net/stories/450400 <span>environmentalhealthnews.org - By Karen Kidd (synopsis) - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Bait laced with the chemicals is eaten by the rodents. However the mice, rats and other rodents may live for several days after eating the bait. The poisoned animals often have different behaviors after they are poisoned and may spend more time out in the open, making them vulnerable to predators, including owls and other raptors. Birds of prey, like owls, are beneficial because they eat rodents and help keep their populations in check. The birds can be exposed to the rodenticides through their diets, and sometimes this has led to larger-scale poisonings.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450400">3.3 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450400">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450400">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Environment The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete ... If It Weren't for Archives Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450172 http://newstrust.net/stories/450172 <span><a href="/sources/alternet">AlterNet</a> - By Mark Ames - Nov. 24 (News Analysis) - Reading through these credible accounts now, you can see how everyone from the PR flaks in the military to the rightwing machine would want somehow distract people from all the accounts of their pigheaded refusal to exempt or discharge Maj. Hasan, and you can then start to imagine how a lot of editors and viewers wouldn't put up much of a fuss if the story changed to something more palatable to the American public. So with no one interested in protecting Maj. Hasan's motives, and everyone interested in protecting the Army's behavior, the story gets changed from one of "it could have been prevented if Army bureaucrats/officers weren't such raging assholes to Maj. Hasan" to a barrage of leaks from unnamed Army officials, who argued that Maj. Hasan never said peep to anyone about wanting out of the service</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450172">4.5 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450172">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450172">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Department of Defense Ethics in Journalism Bad Journalism Psychology Racism How Limousine Liberals, Water Oligarchs and Even Sean Hannity Are Hijacking Our Water Supply Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/451058 http://newstrust.net/stories/451058 <span><a href="/sources/alternet">AlterNet</a> - By Yasha Levine - Nov. 24 (Investigative Report) - A group of water oligarchs in California have engineered a disastrous deregulation and privatization scheme. And they've pulled in hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars without causing much public outrage.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/451058">4.4 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/451058">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/451058">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Environment Water Money and Politics Madagascar's lemurs in trouble Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/452174 http://newstrust.net/stories/452174 <span><a href="/sources/seattle_times">Seattle Times</a> - By Robyn Dixon - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Its endless virgin forests have been decimated and Madagascar has been left paralyzed and lawless in the wake of a coup this year — perfect conditions for the pillaging of the lemurs' remaining habitat.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/452174">3.7 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/452174">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/452174">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Africa Foreign Policy Corruption Wall Street Plays Hardball Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/427557 http://newstrust.net/stories/427557 <span><a href="/sources/business_week">Business Week</a> - By Theo Francis - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Across the nation, local governments and related public entities, already reeling from the recession, face another fiscal crisis: billions of dollars in fees owed to UBS, Goldman Sachs (GS), and other financial giants on investment deals gone wrong.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/427557">4.1 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/427557">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/427557">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Finance U.S. Economy Farmer Ants Fertilize Their Gardens With Bacteria | Wired Science Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/451807 http://newstrust.net/stories/451807 <span><a href="/sources/wired">Wired</a> - By Brandon Keim - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Thanks to their vast underground fungus farms, leafcutter ants are one of Earth’s most successful species — and one secret of their agricultural success is bacteria, which the ants use like fertilizer.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/451807">4.3 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/451807">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/451807">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Biology Blacks hit hard by economy's punch Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450015 http://newstrust.net/stories/450015 <span><a href="/sources/washington_post">Washington Post</a> - By V. Dion Haynes - Nov. 24 (News Report) - Joblessness for 16-to-24-year-old black men has reached Great Depression proportions -- 34.5 percent in October, more than three times the rate for the general U.S. population. And last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that unemployment</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450015">3.8 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450015">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450015">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Racism The Black Experience Jobs U.S. Economy A Price War Brews Between Amazon and Wal-Mart Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450598 http://newstrust.net/stories/450598 <span><a href="/sources/new_york_times">New York Times</a> - By Brad Stone, Stephanie Rosenbloom - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart’s long-term goal appears to be stopping Amazon from taking away its business.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450598">3.3 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450598">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450598">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Retail Online Feds failing in duty to protect water from oilsands development Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450428 http://newstrust.net/stories/450428 <span><a href="/sources/canada_com">Canada.com</a> - By Mike De Souza - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - The Harper government is failing to enforce federal law and exercise its constitutional authority in at least 10 different aspects of monitoring the exploitation of Alberta’s oilsands and its impact on water, says a new report to be released Monday.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450428">3.1 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450428">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450428">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Water Pollution Oil and Gas Canada Lieberman's Stand: No Public Option Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/448960 http://newstrust.net/stories/448960 <span><a href="/sources/wall_street_journal">Wall Street Journal</a> - Nov. 24 (News Analysis) - The Connecticut senator says any public option will compel him to block a final vote on the health bill. His objection, he says, is based on fiscal risk.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/448960">Not rated yet</a> - <a href="/stories/448960">See Info »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/448960">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Health Care U.S. Congress U.S. Senate Democratic Party Some businesses waste more than £1m a year on excess energy, carbon trading trial finds Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450429 http://newstrust.net/stories/450429 <span>yorkshirepost.co.uk - By Tom Palmer - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - A PIONEERING carbon trading programme in Yorkshire has revealed some businesses are wasting more than a £1m a year on excess energy and would face six figure fines under future legislation.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450429">3.0 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450429">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450429">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Energy Pollution Climate Change Culture & Society Articles | Viewing Turkey Day Through Academic Prism | Miller-McCune Online Magazine Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/451386 http://newstrust.net/stories/451386 <span><a href="/sources/miller_mccune">Miller-McCune</a> - By Tom Jacobs - Nov. 24 (Special Report) - Given that entirely reasonable analysis, it is a bit jolting to read further into the paper and find the following sentence: "The stuffed turkey represents the Native Americans, sacrificed and consumed in order to bring civilization to the New World."</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/451386">Not rated yet</a> - <a href="/stories/451386">See Info »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/451386">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> The Phantom Menace Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446978 http://newstrust.net/stories/446978 <span><a href="/sources/new_york_times">New York Times</a> - By Paul Krugman - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - The scare stories from Wall Street seem to be intimidating Washington from doing more to rescue the economy.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446978">4.4 average</a> - <a href="/stories/446978">5 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446978">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Jobs Finance Yes, Sarah, There is a Media Conspiracy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/448485 http://newstrust.net/stories/448485 <span><a href="/sources/true_slant">True/Slant</a> - By Matt Taibbi - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - Is the media out to get Sarah Palin? It seems like most of the letters I get are insisting that I admit it. “Surely you can’t deny,” writes one woman from Florida, “that no political figure in American history has had to put up with what Sarah Palin has had to put up with from the mainstream media.” Now, this is the part of this red-blue schtick where I’m supposed to strike back without thinking and re-hash the history of, say, the Monica Lewinsky scandal in rebuttal and then, as the argument progresses, do the whole “I know you are but what am I?” thing until the end of time. I’ve decided from now on that I’m just not going to go there with any of this culture-war bullshit. It’s exhausting. I mean, hell, if you want to argue over who’s more justified in wallowing in media victimhood, that’s not a fight I mind losing. Mazel tov!</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/448485">3.9 average</a> - <a href="/stories/448485">4 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/448485">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Media and Politics Sarah Palin Culture Wars Florida coalition targets pending federal pollution rules Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446395 http://newstrust.net/stories/446395 <span><a href="/sources/miami_herald">Miami Herald</a> - By Curtis Morgan - Nov. 23 (News Report) - The target: A settlement a federal judge in Tallahassee approved last week in a lawsuit brought by five environmental groups against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It requires that federal regulators, for the first time, step in and set a state's water quality standards for nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus that flow into waterways from fertilized lawns, sewage plants, farms fields, cattle pastures and a host of other sources.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446395">3.8 average</a> - <a href="/stories/446395">3 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446395">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Pollution Water Scenes from Iowa's recession Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/447665 http://newstrust.net/stories/447665 <span><a href="/sources/desmoines_register">Des Moines Register</a> - By Michael Bugeja - Nov. 23 (Special Report) - They arrive at Gray's Lake Park in the morning, basking on borrowed time of a mild mid-November, realizing the winter can arrive any day like layoffs without warning. They are the unemployed, strolling with friends, partners or retirees, or sometimes alone. Everyone has a story to tell. Everyone knows someone else out of work in what some call "The Second Depression." They are neighbors, acquaintances, family members, colleagues, friends. They may be you. They belong to "The New Poverty," people who followed the rules, paid bills and mortgages on time and whose lives were scuttled by Ponzi and subprime schemes happening far away.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/447665">3.8 average</a> - <a href="/stories/447665">5 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/447665">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446534 http://newstrust.net/stories/446534 <span><a href="/sources/seattle_times">Seattle Times</a> - By John Flesher - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Forests are a treasure trove of limbs and bark that can be made into alternative fuels and some worry the increasing trend of using that logging debris will make those materials too scarce, harming the woodlands. For centuries, forests have provided</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446534">3.7 average</a> - <a href="/stories/446534">3 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446534">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Energy Green Technology Fed under fire as public anger mounts Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/447260 http://newstrust.net/stories/447260 <span><a href="/sources/associated_press">Associated Press</a> - By Tom Raum - Nov. 23 (News Analysis) - Suddenly the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag. Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding. Get probing audits of its behind-the-scenes operations, others say. The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is always fair game for criticism and second-guessing, usually over interest rate actions. But this year the criticism is much broader as Congress responds to widespread public anger that the Fed bailed out Wall Street but not ordinary Americans, and with unemployment in double digits.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/447260">3.4 average</a> - <a href="/stories/447260">3 Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/447260">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Finance Money U.S. Economy Lessons From the Japanese: Time to Stop Borrowing Money and Start Printing It Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/449607 http://newstrust.net/stories/449607 <span><a href="/sources/truthout">TruthOut</a> - By Ellen Hodgson Brown - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - Miners used to keep canaries in coal mines as an early warning device. If the air was so bad that it killed the canary, the miners would soon be next. Japan may be the canary for the out-of-control deficit spending policies now being pursued in the United States and the United Kingdom.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/449607">Not rated yet</a> - <a href="/stories/449607">See Info »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/449607">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> U.S. Economy Japan Naomi Klein on Climate Debt: Why Rich Countries Should Pay Reparations To Poor Countries For The Climate Crisis Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450156 http://newstrust.net/stories/450156 <span><a href="/sources/democracy_now">Democracy Now</a> - By Naomi Klein, Amy Goodman - Nov. 23 (Interview) - With the Copenhagen climate summit two weeks away, best-selling journalist Naomi Klein examines the grass-roots movement behind the climate debate proposal that argues all the costs associated with adapting to a more hostile ecology—everything from building stronger sea walls to switching to cleaner, more expensive technologies—are the responsibility of the countries that created the crisis. Klein also discusses the 10th anniversary of the Seattle WTO protests and the 10th anniversary of her first book, “No Logo.”</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450156">3.8 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450156">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450156">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Climate Change Environment Money Population & Environment: a Progressive, Feminist Approach Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/446434 http://newstrust.net/stories/446434 <span><a href="/sources/truthout">TruthOut</a> - By Laurie Mazur - Nov. 23 (Opinion) - If we take seriously the need to protect the planet and distribute its resources more equitably, it becomes clear that it would be easier to provide a good life—at less environmental cost—for 8 billion rather than 11 billion people. This is especially true for climate change: an analysis by Brian O'Neill at the National Center for Atmospheric Research estimates that stabilizing world population at 8 billion, rather than 9 billion or more, would eliminate one billion tons of CO2 per year by 2050-- as much as completely ending deforestation.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/446434">3.1 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/446434">See Reviews »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/446434">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Environment US Group That Supported Overthrows of Democratically Elected Governments in Haiti and Venezuela Will Observe Elections in Honduras Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/450440 http://newstrust.net/stories/450440 <span><a href="/sources/common_dreams">Common Dreams</a> - Nov. 23 (Press Release) - Both groups are apparently planning to assist with observation of the elections, despite the fact that the electoral process will be effectively controlled by thousands of military troops and police officers - the same forces who have committed innumerable human rights violations, including killings, rapes, beatings and thousands of detentions, since the June 28 coup d'etat.</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/450440">4.2 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/450440">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/450440">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Latin America Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800 http://newstrust.net/stories/444466 http://newstrust.net/stories/444466 <span><a href="/sources/the_guardian">The Guardian</a> - By Richard Norton-Taylor - Nov. 23 - • Inquiry to hear how Blair hid true intentions for war • Military ?ill-prepared? for aftermath of invasion Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair?s government?s attempts to mislead the public. They were so shocked by the lack of preparation for the aftermath of the invasion that they believe members of the British and US governments at the time could be prosecuted for war crimes by breaching the duty outlined in the Geneva convention to safeguard civilians in a conflict, the Guardian has been told. The lengths the Blair government took to conceal the invasion plan and the extent of military commanders? anger at what they call the government?s "appalling" failures emerged as Sir John Chilcot, the inquiry?s chairman, promised to produce a "full and insightful" account of how Britain was drawn into the conflict. Fresh evidence has emerged ...</span><p><b>NewsTrust Rating: </b><a href="/stories/444466">4.0 average</a> (not enough reviews) - <a href="/stories/444466">See Review »</a> - <a href="http://newstrust.net/stories/444466">Review It</a>        <a href="http://newstrust.net/">Visit NewsTrust</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about">About</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/partners/feeds/rss">Sign Up</a> | <a href="http://newstrust.net/about/disclaimer">Disclaimer</a></p> Iraq